Archive

  • Loss of cat business to alternative capital "not all bad" for reinsurers

    04 September 2013

    Moody's sees signs of indiscipline in underwriting

  • The InsuranceERM guide to GRC software for insurers

    03 September 2013

    Large vendors dominate the governance, risk and compliance software sector, where very few of the multitude of systems on offer have been designed specifically for the insurance industry

  • Munich Re acquires RenRe's weather risk unit

    03 September 2013

    RenRe Energy Advisors sold for "mid double-digit million" dollars

  • Rothesay Life completes £440m buy-out of InterContinental pension fund

    03 September 2013

    Good time to proceed with deals, says PwC

  • Aegon ditches ECB swap curve for Solvency I calculation

    03 September 2013

    Decision follows downgrade of France's credit rating

  • Reinsurance capital influx raises government interest in cat coverage

    02 September 2013

    Significant growth opportunities for catastrophe excess-of-loss market, says Aon Benfield's Christian

  • Absence of hurricanes in August may not be good news

    02 September 2013

    History suggests deadly Atlantic storms could arrive soon, says AccuWeather.com

  • ILS market set to broaden in scope

    30 August 2013

    Lower spreads no barrier to market growth, says Aon Benfield Securities

  • Zurich to investigate pressures on CFO

    30 August 2013

    Pierre Wauthier's suicide note mentions chairman Ackermann

  • How to develop multi-year capital projections for the ORSA

    29 August 2013

    Solvency II firms have a lot to do to develop their modelling capabilities into a multi-period capital projections. This is why Craig Turnbull and Andy Frepp recommend insurers invest in statistically robust multi-period capital proxy functions such as least-squares Monte Carlo